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  1. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Rabbits as Sacrificial Loss Prevention

    @GGBEAR semantics eh.
  2. AB Gamebird Farmer

    trapped a raccoon.

    I can testify of the legitimacy of the CO option. As a child I witnessed my grandfather using this method on a skunk. If I remember correctly the skunk didn't even spray inside the box.
  3. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Rabbits as Sacrificial Loss Prevention

    yeah I can buy hardware cloth, I use it for the floor of my breeder rabbit cages so that their poop falls through it to the ground. it is about $12.50 canadian for a 2'x5' role or around $15.00 canadian for a 3'x5' role. how much is hardware cloth where you live?
  4. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Rabbits as Sacrificial Loss Prevention

    haha, its all good. To define Coyote Pelts, hmmmm. well, a Coyote is the common name for Canis Latrans, a small canid species closely related to wolves. A pelt is the skin of a fur bearing animal. So, coyote pelts are the skins of coyotes.
  5. AB Gamebird Farmer

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Im not sure about natural insecticides but I remember reading this article in the journal of applied animal research about using oil of oregano as a pre-incubation egg disinfectant. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09712119.2010.9707173 If oil of oregano kills bacteria on egg shells...
  6. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Rabbits as Sacrificial Loss Prevention

    it sucks that you are likely correct. but coyote pelts are worth about $100 each these days so i mean, you win some, you loose some.
  7. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Thin egg shells

    It is a terrible story, it made me sad, but then I remembered that chickens aren't humans and I was fine. but yeah, soft egg shells suck, buying oyster shell sucks, buying commercial layer mix sucks. I was reading some government of saskatchewan publication that said limestone or oyster shell...
  8. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Broken drywall used for calcium?

    In canada the price of about 50# (25kg) oyster shell is around $26 Canadian dollars.
  9. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Thin egg shells

    This one time one of my hens had a run in with a dog but did not sustain any superficial flesh injuries, she did however appear to have suffered some neurological damage. Hoping she would recover, I put her back in the coop with the other 14 hens and 2 roosters. My two barred rock roosters took...
  10. AB Gamebird Farmer

    i was cold so I hung a heat lamp above my bed.

    i was cold so I hung a heat lamp above my bed.
  11. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Rabbits as Sacrificial Loss Prevention

    I hope my creepy title caught your attention. Back story: Since I am not a millionaire i didn't feel like buying hundreds of feet of chain link wire to build my pheasant, chicken and turkey enclosures. I used poultry wire which is real good for keeping poultry in.... while predators kill...
  12. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Info on raising Melanistic Pheasants!

    I love the longwinded reply! thank you thank you! so if I understand you correctly... M/M= full extension... ? M/m+ = intermediate or sometimes just normal plumage (because of the incomplete dominance thing and/or modifiers) breeding M/M and M/m would statistically result in the following...
  13. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Info on raising Melanistic Pheasants!

    What do you mean "it usually lasts about 2 weeks." 007Sean? yall must be required to report your harvests or something and when the county quota is reached the season is over? either way sounds like you have an awesome family to be thankful for! so back to pheasants. I see you are raising the...
  14. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Info on raising Melanistic Pheasants!

    Game bird farming is in your blood eh 007Sean. Sounds like your father deserves to have something named after him, or something to that effect. I wonder if he would have been in trouble with Parks and wildlife if they knew he had intentionally released them in the 40's. Would you say pheasants...
  15. AB Gamebird Farmer

    150 ring necked chicks arriving tomorrow

    150 ring necked chicks arriving tomorrow
  16. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Info on raising Melanistic Pheasants!

    GAQuail is likely correct. An oldster told me the other day that ring necked pheasants have no "homing instinct", I asked what he meant by that and he went on to explain that when pheasants are released they seam to travel at random and surprisingly far. He told a story about a time he released...
  17. AB Gamebird Farmer

    Info on raising Melanistic Pheasants!

    does anyone know the dominance of the melanistic mutant trait? I have a melanistic cock breeding with regular ring neck hens, will his offspring have hyperexpression of melanin? macfarlanes leads me to believe that his offspring will be normal https://www.pheasant.com/facts.aspx#breeds
  18. AB Gamebird Farmer

    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    this year I used my toolshed floor as a brooder. my tools were on the shelves 4ft off the ground. at 3-4 weeks old the little brats were flying up and pooping on my tools. So, yeah probably slap some 2ft cardboard sides on and maybe some 2inch whole chicken wire on the top. then do whatever you...
  19. AB Gamebird Farmer

    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    depends how high the sides are..... :P
  20. AB Gamebird Farmer

    What might have killed my chickens?

    Snares also work very well, and are fairly inexpensive. Set a few at coyote height perpendicular to your wire to catch em' while they pace around your coop. Brass snare wire is available at walmart, but the zip-tie-style cable snares work best although they cost more. might want to consider how...
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